Caranthir, Doug, and other contributers - THANK YOU!

this worked great... what a time savings...

left it going while at work - it crashed on gina gershon also for me...  i'll manually start after her and go from there overnight tonight.

Does the photos get saved with the whole database when I save it manually to the harddrive so that I can rebuild it on an other PC?

Or will I have to store the photos seperately?

I have a request.

I have headshot folders only with pictures, from actors who I have in my Profiler. Could you make a script for such case?

It will be extremely faster, than the existing method. The format of the filenames is “Fore Middle LastName.jpg”.

Thanks

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Don't know if someone else has had this problem. When I run the program, it skips 2,3 sometimes 10 names in a row, and is passing (not inserting)most of the 9000 headshots I have.
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don't forget the headshots won't all get inserted in your database. The actors need to already exist in the database so that they get matched.

I had approx 2,000 headshots out of 9,000 inserted.

Quoting Armand:

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Quoting pauls42:

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I don't understand - if you only use this folder, you have setup, in the program then it will only load these headshots. You don't need to change anything in the program.

Sure it works, but this is very slow. Normally there are headshots for 10 percent of the people. The actually program go through every name.

Now it works so: Copy Person Name, look for file. 90 percent not found.

I would like: Copy Filename, look for name. All found.

I should be faster, too when there are headshots from persons not in the collection.

I still don't understand.

You said you had already setup a folder which contains headshots which are all for an actor in the database. In which case it will be 'Copy Filename, look for name. All found. '

Ok, I will first also add to the 'thank you' posts, but with the side remark that this is better than having nothing at all.
I surely hope that Ken and Caranthir have already been talking to each other. This little tool is just a major pain by the way it is implemented. Obviously this is the result of Caranthir having no API for DVD Profiler to do this stuff so the best effort possible to do this, is emulate user input. This obviously introduces quite some limitations, not the least the fact that the only way to do this is to go through the entire crew/cast list even though you only have images for like 5% of the people (as in my case). My laptop was still only at the T after 15 hours or so...  I already fear that if we get a file with updated/added headshots, the tool will again go through the entire crew/cast to find the matches.

So I surely hope Ken can at least make the organization of the headshots a bit simpler such that user emulation is not required anymore. Then it should be fairly easy for Caranthir to write a tool that imports a set of headshots in a matter of minutes or seconds.

(I can compare a bit with MagicWorkstation, a database tool for Magic The Gathering cards. The authors also don't have permissions to include images. There is also an amateur website that provides zipfiles with the scanned cards. Now, there the import is just as simple as unzipping the files in a fixed directory!)

Don't take this badly, but obviously the current solution is not really viable. It is also in Kens interest to have good import possibilities because that's what would make this Headshots feature actually usable in the first place (the number of cast/crew in anyone's database will be an order of magnitude larger than the number of DVDs).

(Edit: just learned that Caranthir is not Doug ... as for Doug: please please rebuild that zip-file to get rid of the Gina Gershon person as the import tool just halts on that one).

I've to report a problem using the program with many international versions of Windows, as reported by many other users:

The Ctrl-A (Select all) shortcut for Paint isn't the same for many languages. I.E. in the Italian version of Windows it has been changed to Ctrl-5 (Numpad), in Spanish and Purtoguese versions is Ctrl-T...

This causes the application to pause, because it cannot "copy" the picture from paint as there is no selection....
Can, please, someone post a workaround for this?
Is there any way to start Windows and the embedded applications (like Paint) in "natural" English?
Otherways, is it possibile for you to compile a release that asks for the shortcut to use (even having to put it in an .ini file...)?

Many thanks in advance